and he is asking us to help him with democracy and free done. important moment this that speech as well. governor, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you, guys. >> todd: that's great point. the fact that zelenskyy said it maybe we don't cancel it four months in advance. do you know what isn't canceled "fox & friends." >> carley: it starts right now. [siren] [gunfire] [baby crying] >> russian troops. >> shelter for civilians, including children. [explosion] >> people are fighting [inaudible] [applause] >> carley: powerful, emotional speech that will go down in history. >> russian forces continue their onslaught. >> thousands of people starting to run from odesa, fearing an

imminent assault. >> president biden responding by announcing an additional $800 million in new military aid. >> the military equipment we are giving them now we should have gave them six months ago. >> are you ready to call him a war criminal. >> i think he is a war criminal. ♪ >> steve: good morning, it's thursday, march 17th, 2022. it is noon in ukraine. and we start this hour here on fox news with an alert. rescue efforts are underway at the mariupol theater that was bombed according to the president intentionally by russian forces. >> hundreds of civilians taking shelter inside the building including children. but right now there are no reports of any deaths. >> brian: jonathan hunt joins us live from western ukraine with the latest. i was watching one of these british reports, jonathan, they say the good news is, early indications are a lot of people were downstairs when they blew

up the building. >> yeah, brian. we are getting word from local officials from mariupol where that theater is that the shelter, which was built underneath the theater, was largely intact. so, we don't know how many civilians were down there sheltering. there were, according to those local officials, children among them though. and we are being told that survivors are being brought out. that is the good news in the wake of horrific attack on a building that was clearly marked as sheltering children. but the russians bombed it anyway. those signs that were written on the ground saying very clearly children are here. were just ignored by the russians. also getting terrible video today out of the city of cher nikki, north of kyiv. according to auto tweet from the u.s. embassy in ukraine russian soldiers opened fire on people

who were simply standing in line waiting to buy bread. and we understand that at least 10 people were killed in that incident and the russian attacks on civilian targets also go on in the eastern city of kharkiv. a school, according to ukrainian officials, was destroyed there. we don't believe that any kids or teachers were in that school at the time. it shows you the kind of targets the russians continue to look at. meantime we haven't talked for a little while about the southern black sea port city of odesa. but we are seeing video now of hundreds, if not thousands of people leaving that city. it has been talked about as a potential target for the russians, they do 'have warships in the black sea. they could launch an assault at any time. although i am told from colleagues who are down there right now that all is quiet at this point. that doesn't, of course, mean it will stay quiet.

meantime vladimir putin in russia is issuing some of the most frightening comments we have heard yet from him in terms of cracking down on opposition in russia. listen carefully here to the president of russia. >> even more so the russian people will be able to distinguish true patriots than scum and traders than a fly that accidently flew into the mouth and convinced such a natural and necessary cleansing of society will only strengthen our country. >> anyone who opposes vladimir putin in his eyes scum and traitors and russia needs to be cleansed. i'm not sure we have heard language like that in europe since nazi germany. >> brian: jonathan, kind of interesting that he feels compelled to say that he called out the oligarchs. they want to live outside our society. he has got no use for them. the fact that he is making those

statements maybe shows the unrest in russia is grader than we know. and that is at least 14,000 arrested for protesting. >> yeah, it would certainly appear, brian, that the flames of opposition that are beginning to burn, perhaps, in russia are getting to president putin because, for him to speak out like that he clearly feels he needs to send the strongest message possible that they will be clamped down on. it's a terrifying warning to anybody who even thinks of freedom and free speech in russia. >> steve: you are right about clamping down because now there are the first criminal cases in russian history they announced this new law where you get 15 years in prison for posting false information about the ukraine war. and obviously it's false if russia doesn't like it.

jonathan yesterday at this time you were telling us that lavrov and the ukrainian team regarding the peace talks, so-called peace talks sounded more optimistic. i was reading this morning in bloomberg that a ukrainian official close to the talk says hey, the reason russia is sounding optimistic is because they want the sanctions lifted. have you heard that? >> what they are trying to do is put out this sort of narrative that we are doing everything we can to come to some sort of deal when clearly they are trying to get to a deal very much on their terms, steve. they want territory. they want a neutral ukraine basically that will never be able toable in their eyes of any threat to them. never be able to align itself with western europe for instance. so there is some proceeding e. progress. we should point that out. but on the smaller things, on the bigger issues, the two sides are very, very far apart.

in putting some of these bigger issues out there what the russians are trying to do is back the ukrainians into a corner and say look this is the shape of the deal. it's not the shape of the deal according to the ukrainians at all at this point, steve. >> rachel: jonathan, i'm really intrigued by what you said that vladimir putin said about the oligarchs. because many people have speculated that wherever these oligarchs end up falling would have a big impact on how putin feels and whether or not things are going well for him. we know that soible properties, their reputation, in foreign countries are now in tatters. what can you tell us about that? >> i think his message was very much to any of the russian oligarchs. the billionaires who might turn against him. but i don't think you can interpret what he was saying there as just a message to

billionaires. that was clearly meant as a message to anybody. any russian, anywhere who might oppose vladimir putin. he is saying there is no place for you in a country that is run by me. you will be silenced, during his words, cleansed one way or another. those are the words. i talked about nazi germany before. they are also the words of one joseph stalin, clearly a hero to vladimir putin. >> steve: you are either on the putin side or you are a traitor. all right, jonathan, thank you for that report from ukraine. >> brian: remember president zelenskyy was about 22 hours ago where he addressed a joint session of congress in and out in 25 minutes. rolled a tape in the middle of it just to show you the horror and destruction from the video he is able to witness firsthand and to acquire because he is the president of a country now under siege but fighting back. he says, listen, thanks for your support. thanks for what you have given but i'm going to need more.

you will hear both the english version. hear it being translated after he comes out of the video he speaks directly to us in english. >> in your great history, you have that would allow to you understand ukraine and when we need you right now, remember pearl harbor, terrible morning of december 7, 1941 when your sky was black from the planes attacking you. just remember it. remember september the 11th, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities independent territories in battle fields. you could not stop it. our country experience the same every day. >> i'm addressing the president biden. you are the leader of the

nation. of your great nation. i wish you to be the leader of the world. being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. >> steve: absolutely. so, what he does every time he appears on one of these video conferences is he talks to his audience about iconic events in their history. he talked about pearl harbor, he talked about 9/11, obviously impacting every member of congress in that room. while everybody was sleeping, earlier today, in germany, he appeared before their parliament and he evoked the berlin wall, which they all feel, obviously, iconically, and deeply about. and he asked for more aid and he asked for eu membership, and addressing the chancellor elon schultz. he said mr. schultz, tear down this wall. obviously is he going from country to country and asking

for more stuff and more support. he certainly had the support around the world he needs stuff. >> rachel: he does. invoking season in particularly poignant not just because 9/11 is such a huge moment for our country in history russian has turned the ukrainian skies into a source of death for thousands of people which of course our skies were, too. that's an effective message. what was more effective i think was at the very end where you saw that clip where he said you know, i'm asking you to be the leader. the leader of the free world. clean-up is implying he doesn't think that biden has met that mark yet. and you can see that if you were president zelenskyy, you still have to be burning mad that at the beginning, before there was a war at all. before there was an invasion, joe biden made that huge critical mistake of saying well, you know, if they invade, it would depend. >> steve: minor incursion.

>> rachel: if it's minor or not. that has to burn him. meanwhile our own jacqui heinrich asked joe biden if he thought putin was a war criminal. here's what happened. >> mr. president, after everything we have seen, are you ready to call putin a war criminal? >> no. did you ask me whether i would call. >> putin a war criminal? >> oh, i think he is a war criminal. >> steve: apparently he didn't hear it the first time or changed his mind. whatever. he came back and finally, those are as tough of words as he is has used there is a standard about who is a war criminal and jen psaki referred to the state department is trying to figure out whether or not he really is a war criminal. she said that the president speaking from the heart. he has seen the images looking at right there yeah that guy is a war criminal. >> brian: inthink probably

somebody whispered in his ear go back and fix it jen psaki said he was speaking emotionally there. it didn't seem like he was emotional. they are targeting schools and children. children point blank. shooting press with press written in their kevlar from all around. this is the utter definition of war criminality. and you would expect this from saddam hussein. you would expect this from al-qaeda and bin laden if they had the armament russia had. there is no values and ethics and valor among the russian armed forces which is stunning to see, especially because we got it all on video. and what you also probably don't see enough of is the counter attacks taking place from the ukrainians. do you know over the last 10 days they have not lost any single land and there is one city that they have lost and they are battling to get it back and that's kherson. it doesn't mean they're not under attack. the russians have to shell from the outside without even precision weapons.

senator tom cotton on what we can give and why we always seem to be late. >> once again, is on the back foot, he needs to be where president zelenskyy urged him to be today clean-up is leading the world and helping ukraine fight for their own freedom. this goes back for months though, lara. had you president biden who is continually been a day late and a dollar short. whether he is bragged along by the bravery and courage that the ukrainian army has displayed or by members of congress and frankly by members of congress in both parties in many indicates. i looked today they announced the transfer of $800 million of weapons to ukraine. that's welcome it should have been done a month ago or two months ago. and still just a fraction of what congress proposed last week. look, the ukrainian people and army have proven they are capable of fighting the russians. we need to incursion them to do so and we need to provide the weapons that they need to fight the russians. >> steve: with that $800 million

worth of military aid largely some of the stuff that mr. zelenskyy is going to wind up with he obviously needs although it's been very effective. the latest news out of ukraine is ukraine is saying they shot down 10 russian planes today and some cruise missiles although the remnants of one rocket hit a 16 story apartment building. they are going -- we are, the united states, going to give ukraine those switchblade drones that we told you about yesterday. they are carrying in a backpack designed for special operators. the kind of weapon that they can have immediate impact on the battlefield unlike one of the big predator drones, you don't have to go to a flight school and learn how it fly. can you essentially shoot it at somebody. >> rachel: a lot of people are saying, steve, if you can allow for that, what's the difference between that and the planes. that's where the conversation, you know that a lot of the members of congress were having yesterday both on television and after the speech. i think there is a leadership issue here.

you know, the president announced he was going to europe in 10 days like most of us are hoping this might actually, you know, maybe we could get a peace agreement, again, nobody talking about that. no leadership antony blinken the secretary of state has a private jet. he wasn't in that meeting with the other three leaders of europe who went into kyiv. i mean, there is no leadership a. the diplomatic efforts appear at least from where we are standing to be very aanemic. maybe there is stuff going on behind the scenes but the optic doesn't look like america is attack leadership. >> steve: let's wait 10 days. okay these sanctions are going to impact him. wait a month. a month is four weeks. do you know what today is? today starts the fourth week. are the sanctions really biting that badly? have we brought russia to their knees? if. >> brian: we're still buying oil from russia. >> steve: exactly.

>> brian: a lot of the stuff doesn't kick in until the middle of june. >> rachel: wow. >> brian: middle of june. 800 stingers, 2,000 javelin. steve, you mentioned those drones. the problem with those they're kamikaze, they are great but you use them once. they goal quick. >> steve: only 5,000 bucks each so that's a deal. >> brian: let's get a lot more. just let them fight. because what's happening is and that's why you saw an irate putin yesterday i imagine because no one knows for sure. is he not making the progress he thought. he knows his money is running out. knows his people are having trouble getting money out of atms. oh, you thought we had bare snestles you have got to see in russia there is nothing anywhere. there is a huge problem there and they are being squeezed. and we're going to talk about this in 20 minutes or a little bit longer with jeb keen. there is a report out of china that they were ready to go take taiwan in the fall. and now they are rethinking it because of what is happening here and how they don't want to get caught up in the sanctions that we are offering along with

the our european partners. >> rachel: brian, why can't they shut the oil off now? why does it go all the way to june? >> steve: the market. >> brian: unbelievable, yeah. >> steve: here's the thing, you think if the grocery stores are empty there, would be uprising with the people. remember, the putin disinformation campaign within russia is so effective the average person in russia, unless they are young and they have got a smart phone and they know how to work the internet and stuff like that. they think that russia is liberating the ukrainians of the nazis who are running kyiv. that's the message that the average person on the streets of moscow has. so so, you know, it's like -- you know how we are paying about a buck more for gas. the people of moscow are going, you know what, if we don't have bread today, it's worth it to get rid of the nazis in kyiv. >> it's that kind of choice. >> brian: the problem is so intermarried and relations there even if you stop their facebook and stop their national news, it's almost impossible for the

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>> carley: back with headlines, identified six college golfers killed with their coach in texas. two other victims inside the pickup truck also involved in

the wreck. the driver of the vehicle has been identified as 38-year-old heinrich stephens and the passenger an unidentified 13-year-old boy. police are warning people across the country about crime tourists from south africa. these games are -- gangs, rather, are accused of ransacking at least two mommy's and wealthy california neighborhoods this week. police say these criminals target neighborhoods in places with lax criminal justice policies before returning home with the loot. these types of groups have already ravaged neighborhoods in indiana, texas, new york, virginia, georgia, south carolina and north carolina. call it the luck of the irish. notre dame rutgers in double overtime to advance march madness. >> off balance shot no good. it's good. 1.4 to play. here comes geo baker. he didn't get it off. that's it. happy saint patrick's day. >> the fighting irish with the bucket to win 89-87.

the win means they will face sixth ranked alabama in the ncaa tournament tomorrow. those are your headlines, guys. >> steve: couldn't have happened on battery day on saint patrick's day that's why we are all wearing green. >> carley: happy march madness, happy saint pat. >> steve: we have been telling you about "the washington post" story how kamala harris our vice president is a very hard person to work for and subsequently one by one her entire communications team has left. down to two until yesterday. sabryna her deputy press secretary is leaving her staff. she is going to do something that the department of defense. she is one of the longest serving aids. she actually was hired by kamala harris in march of 2020. political operation when she was running for president. that means there is only one senior staff member left on her communications team.

that's it. her cupboard is almost bear. >> rachel: now the sheriff's association has gotten together and they actually have a resolution against her. so that's not bad enough. what's happening to her staff. >> steve: she needs a communication staff. >> rachel: "the washington examiner" reports since her appointment we have seen her policies enacted that are focused on her personal and political ideology that only serve to dismantle the security of our country and the enforcement efforts of the hardworking federal officers assigned to an extremely difficult task. we call on president joe biden to take the appropriate steps to remove vice president kamala harris from her leadership position and appoint a new leader who can recognize, respect, and enforce the rule of law for the safety and security of our nation. i doubt that will come from president biden, of course, he is the one who turned down the $15 billion -- he opposed the $15 billion wall. here he is sending a lot of money to ukraine to help them and their border integrity.

>> steve: he likes what's going on on our border. doing a great job according to joe. >> the problem with kamala harris' strategy is she is not trying. she has not put interest in it. no staffer has gone down and no representative has said anything. every time being pushed do a zoom call or show up in a central american nation even though this goes to over 100 country the. almost close to 3 million people have come here illegally. we have the process where these people are landing in the middle of the night. put into schools and districts without even governors and mayors even knowing it. she has no interest in this. i have never, in my lifetime. seen a public official just walk away from a assignment like this to the point now it's time for the midterms. the vice president is not a great speaker -- excuse me, the president is not a great speaker. he used to be in his day a guy to raise money. he will have to go back -- turn back the clock. because right now kamala harris has a lot on her shoulders and as mark penn says last night the white house knows she has not

been effective communicator. by his polls under 40% approval ratings. she is a 50-50 chance to run for president herself should president biden not do it. so, she has been out of her depth overseas. she has been caught by surprise in every major interview. but given a major assignment she falls short because she doesn't prepare and doesn't put the effort in. please tell me the positive qualities that she is displaying that makes her a presidential candidate? >> steve: the people that would talk about her positive qualities would be the communications team. like i said they have had so much turnover they are down to only one person left. they needed somebody in that department who know what is they are doing because it was just yesterday where they had to take down an embarrassing tweet where from the vice president's office talking about how nato essentially was standing with ukraine. not -- and that we would defend them. it was a mistake. they had to take it down. >> rachel: pretty big mistake.

pretty crucial mistake. >> steve: fundamental. >> brian: when you go to poland and meet with the polish president, can you spend some time and put on a jean jacket and put to the border where all the drama is taking place? >> steve: she doesn't go to borders. >> rachel: she is supposed to be doing the root causes and this policy is exsag sassesser is baiting root causes which ask the crime and corruption of the cartels which is driving people out of their home lands. this policy is actually having the opposite effect. i think it's deliberate. i think they know it as you said. and that's just who they are. we are going to move -- >> brian: losing a lot of border states. and to your point when it comes to the border, there is talk now of beto o'rourke and every democrat telling the biden administration, kamala harris don't come. we would rather just be on our own merits. want nothing to do with the administration. >> rachel: and they are losing hispanics. jussie smollett is a free man after.

>> brian: finally. >> rachel: appeal his hate crime conviction. they argue that jail is just too dangerous for the actor. >> steve: todd piro joins us with the details. todd, apparently an appeals court got involved and now he is free for now. >> todd: jussie smollett walking free after serving just six days behind bars a judge releasing smollett on $150,000 bond which he will not pay as long as he appears in court when summoned. his release comes after his lawyers appealed his december convictions arguing he would end up serving his entire sentence before the completion of the entire process. last week the actor was sentenced to 150 days in jail and a $25,000 fine. also required to pay the city of chicago just over $120,000 as you remember, smollett coming unhinge dollars in the courtroom, watch. >> i am not suicidal. i am not suicidal. and i'm innocent. i could have said that i was guilty a long time ago. >> todd: his lawyers also

claiming his sentence was a threat to his life saying, quote, mr. smollett has become the target of vicious threats in the social media forums which no doubt reflects the hatred and wish for physical harm towards smollett, which he may experience during incarceration any custodial setting poses a danger to the safety and life plaintiff smollett. mr. smollett spent the last four days in a psych ward due to being risk of self-harm. that according to his brother. the former empire actor five felony counts of disorderly conduct lying to police when he staged a hate crime against himself in 2019. rachel, brian, and steve, back to you. >> brian: my head is spinning. i'm not sure what happened. >> steve: todd, have you heard the story, apparently he was able to supply those few days on ice water. >> todd: who hasn't done that in prison steve. rachel that's your m.o. >> rachel: it's the new cleanse. >> brian: modern day gandy.

>> steve: thank you very much. [laughter] steve still ahead not just putin's price hike energy companies. charles payne coming up talking about the pain at the pump next.

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>> now that we live in an america where there is a lot more concentration in certain industries, look at the oil industry, look at meat industry, look at groceries generally, what's happened is these companies have said, you know, we will pass along costs but while we're at it and everyone is talking about rising costs let's just add an extra big doll lop of cost increases to expand our profits. >> steve: okay president biden getting in on this, too. tweeting in part oil prices are decreases, gas prices should, too. oil and gas companies should not pad their profits at the expense of hardworking americans. charles payne hardworking host of making money on fox business who joins us now. is that what is going on is price gougings. >> so despicable. >> steve: because it's not true. >> yesterday we got the ppi producer price indexes that's what businesses pay for raw materials and goods. it is moving up substantially

higher than consumer price index, substantially higher across the board. >> steve: so stuff coasts more and pass it loan. >> they will not pass it on at the same price they are paying. have you notice the market has been going down late last year. operating margins are actually going to get smaller. it's like business 101. it's common sense 101. it goes even further than that i don't understand these progressives and now president biden he keeps getting in on the act. disdain for these great companies hire millions of americans walmart they always hated now they hate amazon. they hate the oil industry. getting crude oil from under our feet we don't send this money anywhere hire americans and send their kids to college and produce for their community. they want to attack that? they want to attack that? the profit margins, they want to gauge gouging they should look

at profit margins labor intense industry, crude oil industry. that costs a lot of money. distribute it, market it and refine it last time brand new refinery in this country good capacity 1977. if you really care, if president biden really cares, he could green light several refineries tomorrow if he really cares. he can lower the taxes on gas lien. there are so many things they are doing to contribute to this problem but the idea of demonizing the businesses that hire americans has to stop. >> steve: regarding our inflation situation the federal reserve jacked up short term interest rates a quarter of a point. they said that they might do it another six times which would be another point and a half. here's the thing. i was listening to cbs radio driving in this morning, and they said that the federal reserve raised the rate because of inflation and because of the war. how do you figure the war? >> yeah. i think they actually would have raised rates more if it wasn't

for the war. they only did 25 basis point would have done more if weren't for the war and the quote unquote uncertainty that comes with war. here's the thing jay powell in charge of the federal reserve balancing act. bring down inflation without triggering the inflation. the reason the stock market went up yesterday throughout his answer and answer period we have a strong economy, it's going to hold up and could take a few body blows. ironically the bond market went the opposite way. we have got two different markets thinking we will see if the fed can pull this off or not. a lot of people think it's inevitable that we will lurch into a recession. remains to see. the policies by the federal government could say disals trust at this point. >> steve: watch charles on making money on fox business. he is on at 2:00 this afternoon on this saint patrick's day. thank you, sir. >> got it. >> steve: ukrainian fighters may

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♪ ♪ >> they don't know our ways they don't know our language, cities or streets help us find anyone. >> brian: ukrainian special forces warning russia about a guerrilla war they are in the middle of if it defeats the iranian military the ukrainian military. but how effective would the insurgency really be? bring in our panel of retired green berets specializing in this type of ununconventional war. are pineapple scott man.

jay collins. scott, start with you. it looks like the cia since 2014 has been teaching them guerrilla war tactics. how would you define that? >> really what it comes down to, brian, and it's good to see you again. is the ability, the resilience of the ukrainian people who stand up against an outside oppressor like that, an outside occupier and resist. to mount a collective resistance at every level of warfare. and i guarantee you that is happening right now. it has been in the works for a while. and what you are going to see is a national level resistance, which is going to be extremely difficult for vladimir putin to maintain any kind of opposition to. >> brian: a couple of things, andy, if you look at where we had problems yesterday, as ugly as it gets. even for a guy like you who sees war. they blew up people waiting in a bread line in the city of chernihiv, they blow it up as they were waiting. russians conventional forces blowing up innocent people on purpose, how does that change

the tactics of someone like you or someone, a ukrainian trying to get a degree of revenge or prevent them from taking the city? >> well, it shows that russia doesn't feel like they are going to be able to withstand an unconventional guerrilla warfare later on. they are trying to get rid of as many people as they can so they will not be able to fight against them later. >> brian: jay collins, i understand, too part of a guerrilla warfare is having snipers sent back and find a way to get into the heavy armament. is that why we see the russians for the most part even though i put this in yellow on the outside unable or unwill to get into the cities? they kind of know they are overmatched. so they are doing the easy thing? >> well, yeah. that's definitely part of it, right? they know that once you get in the city, you are really opening yourself up to unconventional warfare from all angles. you don't know where it's coming from. where the enemy in this case,

ukraine soldiers for the russians are going to be attacking from and come from all directions from all sides from all people. it's unconventional. it's completely hard to plan for. so, yes. they are being very careful. you don't know where those shots are coming from. >> brian: i thought this is kind of interesting, too. because we see the red area. before this whole war started, before this whole war started, scott, we knew this was occupied by the russians. but what we're seeing now and i will use yellow here is protests popping up here, here, and here. do you think while the cia is reportedly training these guys they knew they never were willing to give up this region that was just stolen from them because they had the audacity to elect their own leaders 8 years ago? >> yeah. i mean, i think the will to fight. the will to resist is what you are seeing on full display right now. it's simply being harnessed by, you know, the agency and other people who know what to do with that. i will tell you, brian, as we go

into this future that we are in right now, america has got to decide how we are going to play in the world. how we are going to lead. we have historically led in situations like this. that means working by, with, and through our partners. how we treat people, our relationships with ukraine, afghanistan, remember them, the kurds? we have got to decide how we're going to establish relationships with these partners because part of their resilience, part of their ability to fight is the relationships they have with their partners. right now we have got to some work to do in this area. >> brian: what nobody is pointing out to we let the kurds, decided on a whim, stop fighting with you and supplying you and left them to their own devices. afghanistan, i don't need to say anymore. and ukraine, we had -- we had president zelenskyy urge us, jay, to stay involved and you got to do more. does it bother you that he has got to ask for that when he used to lead them? >> yeah, man, it's heart breaking. you look at what really caused this the gap we created in leaving afghanistan and projecting weakness across

international stage our enemy, right? russia, china and iran. see all three of them working together against u.s. interest. so, yes, it's heart breaking. it can be solved. but the world is a better place when america leads with courage, strength and honor. and we have to get back to that the world knows who we are. we have to remember who we are. >> brian: andy, i saw that we have not lost -- not we but the ukrainians have not lost a major city. they lost kherson but still fighting going on there. there is protests happening in the street from all women on down. they are stopping them from taking odesa because of the resistance they're putting up up here. even though they have shifts over here. and the big picture the ukrainians got a real shot of bleeding the russians dry. what would that mean for us and the west? >> you know, the great thing is that ukrainians are already conducting this guerrilla warfare. they don't have the tanks and man tower to stand up to russia. so they are already in, you know, the sf guys in ukraine are

already pounding on as arrested hard as they can. the more we can help them. the more russia, iran, and china sees that we beat them back, they are going to stand down a little bit. >> brian: operation pineapple always could use your help. they spend their time trying to get americans out of war zones especially average still. always great to see you. >> thanks, brian. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: we will continue to track the fighting. meanwhile coming up straight ahead a lego like figurine model after ukrainian president zelenskyy is now in high demand. now money raised from the toy will help those impacted by the real life danger why is guy fieri in the neighbors' kitchen? it's slider sunday! sliiiiiiiiii-der sunday! these chicken parm sliders on king's hawaiian rolls are fire! slider sunday! i want that. everything's better between king's hawaiian bread. mmm!

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♪ >> rachel: we're back with fox weather as a slow moving storm causing life threatening flash flooding in birmingham, alabama. crews are conducting at least 8 water rescues yesterday. parts of the city getting as much as 4 inches with drivers being told to avoid the entire downtown area. let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. janice, first, happy saint patrick's day. >> janice: thank you so much. we have a big parade here in new york city and looks like rain in the forecast. let's watch this area of low pressure. this is the same area that

brought the flooding rainfall to alabama. moving up towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. you can see it's going to be if you are traveling today, just be aware much it's not going to be a big storm system. it's going to be lingering rain. maybe a thunderstorm or two and perhaps some isolated flooding. this is our next big storm system that's coming in today and tomorrow. not only the threat for severe storms but we could see some snow from the rockies to the great lakes so there is the set up. get into the springtime. clash with the two air masses. there is our area of low pressure. we could see considerable snow amounts from the southwest all the way up towards the great lakes and then on the warm side of this storm, the severe threat, large hail, damaging winds. see some tornadoes for some of these areas. and more widespread as we get into friday along the gulf coast, the southeast, up towards ohio and the tennessee river valley. on the good side of this, we have very warm temperatures moving into the northeast. 76 in philadelphia. get into the 70s tomorrow in new york as well. carley, i will send it over to

you. >> carley: quick headlines including this story. ukraine sending more million people fleeing their homes to neighboring countries. the red cross working to provide food hygiene and resources as well as helping people goat safety. fox corporation has helped raise more than $9 million to support the red cross' efforts in ukraine. and you can help, too. just head on over to red cross.org/fox forward to give to the cause. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy servant of the people is back on netflix. >> yes, can you connect. >> hello, my congratulations. we divided to take your call. [inaudible] >> streaming giant announcing the series that helped zelenskyy's political career will return by popular demand in the satirical comedy a teacher who unexpectedsly becomes

president. rachel? >> rachel: sounds good. by the way that number for the red cross, every time you do it is another until million and another million. >> carley: it goes up by a million each day. amazing stuff. >> rachel: we have the best viewers. a limited edition figure of president zelenskyy is now in high demand as all proceeds are going directly towards medical aid for ukrainian refugees. joe owns citizen brick toy company which produces the figurine and he joins us now. this idea of a lego figure that looks like someone is very popular with kids. my daughter got one of these that looks like her and her boyfriend from her boyfriend for her birthday. i'm not surprised that this is actually blown up for you. so what gave you -- why did you think this would work? >> well, we were very affected by the images that we saw of people fleeing ukraine and wanted to do something that was kind of, you know, in our

wheelhouse that we could do. we knew our collectors, our customers would respond to it. >> rachel: absolutely. you have decided that proceeds from this sale are going to go to the many refugees that are now, you know, fleeing ukraine. you decided to work with direct relief. tell me why you chose direct relief and what they do. >> direct relief seems, in our research, to have a really direct pipeline to the people who need it the most deliver medical supplies. kind of put stuff directly in the hands of people in need. so we have been able to donate to them directly. >> rachel: i understand you are running out of these figurines? >> yeah, actually, we thought we were done with this campaign last week and then it kind of reignited again once it got mentioned on the ukrainian instagram page and then the extra coverage, including this program here, allowed us to do

another batch. we did another batch yesterday and they sold out almost immediately. >> rachel: if i was ukrainian kid i would want one for sure. obviously people around the world do, too. know it is going to direct relief which is doing so much good work. if you want to place an order, you can go to citizen brick.com. i will give you the last word. anything else you want to tell us about what you hope to accomplish with this campaign? >> we just would like it thank everybody as of right now we have raised over 145,000 from this project. we're not sure we are going to be able to meet the demand. supplies are kind of limited. we would ask if you can't get one from us that you make a direct donation to one of the charities that we mentioned direct relief or red cross. >> rachel: good advice. joe trupia thanks for returning this campaign for some people in

need. >> cool, thank you for having me. >> rachel: the next hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ [gunfire] >> devastating theater bombing overnight. [siren] >> the word children seen written in russian outside the building before the attack. [crying] >> good news is early indications are a lot of the people were downstairs when they blew up the building. [explosion] >> vladimir putin issuing some of the most frightening comments we have heard yet. >> i'm convinced natural and necessary cleansing of society will only strengthen our country. [explosion] >> i think he is a war criminal. >> president providing ukraine with an additional $800 million in military aid. >> give zelenskyy every single weapon system. every single bullet that he needs to defend his country. [explosion] >> you agreed that it wouldn't take much to end up in world war

iii. >> we have the whole civilization at stake. ♪ >> brian: all right. we begin with a fox news alert. rescue efforts are underway at mariupol theater that was bombed by russian forces yesterday. steve: they are estimating up to 1,000 civilians had taken shelter inside the building, including children at one point or another over the last 22 days. right now there are no reports of any death, extraordinarily. >> rachel: that's a miracle. jonathan hunt joins us live from western ukraine with the latest. jonathan? >> rachel, steve, brian, we understand that that urgent rescue effort is ongoing. it appears that at least a large part of the shelter underneath that theater in the southern city of mariupol survived intact so rescuers are digging through the rubble trying to move it off of the shelter itself and get to

those who may have survived inside. that theater by the way was clearly marketed with the word children on both sides of it as a sign to the russians do not hit this building because it is being used to shelter civilians, including children. the russians bombed it anyway according to ukrainian officials. we also think seeing disturbing video out of the city of concern new year's eve: opened fire on people standing in line to buy bread. at least 10 people killed in that apparently completely unwarranted attack on people just trying to buy provisions. we are also seeing the bombing of or the aftermath of a bombing of a school in the eastern city of kharkiv. that happening again yesterday as the russians to attack

civilian targets. in the southern port city of odesa, that is a critical port on the coast of the black sea, we are understand that hundreds, if not thousands of people now appear to be packing up and getting out of there. that could be a sign that they believe a russian assault from warships which we know are in the black sea could be coming soon although i understand from some people i know who are in odesa right now that at this moment it is quiet. that doesn't mean it will remain so. of course, and meantime russian president vladimir putin issuing the most terrifying warning to anybody in russia who is even thinking of opposing him. listen here to the president. >> many people more so the russian people will always be able to distinguish true fritz scum and traitors and spit them out like a fly that accidently flew into the mouth and convinced such a natural and

necessary cleansing of our country will strength our country. >> a cleansing of society. we literally have not heard that sort of language from a russian leader since the days of stalin. steve, rachel, brian? >> steve: you are right, jonathan. he is saying the west is using russian traitors to create the civil unrest on the street of moscow and elsewhere in russia as well. jonathan, i wanted to ask you, apparently six nations have called for the united nations security council to meet today before a scheduled vote on a russian resolution. the resolution from the russians demands protection for ukrainian citizens in vulnerable situations. that would be pretty much everybody in ukraine. this resolution never mentions that russia actually starter wanted the war. >> it's really kind of hard to believe when you hear things like that, steve.

but russia is, of course, one of the five permanent members of the security council. they have the right to put forward any resolution they want to. they also have the right to continually to veto any resolution they don't like. so, you can see why a lot of people believe that the united nations is playing no effective role here. you have the country, that started a war and unjustified war and unprovoked war. able to veto any resolution in the body that was designed in the first place to stop wars. yeah. it's extraordinary. >> rachel: we pay for that by the way. we pay for the u.n. go ahead, brian. >> steve: can we get our money back? >> brian: if you look at kharkiv, despite the shelling they have not given up. the russians have not taken a

major city in the ukraine. how much is that do to their lack of sophisticated weapons, tactics and communication a how much does that have to do with the reorganized resistance and communication of the ukrainians? >> i think it's probably a bit of both there, brian. the russians have been organized organizationally inept if you talk to military experts. they have the weaponry. they have the air power. they just haven't used it in the right way according to a lot of generals that we have spoken to. and on the flip side of that, you have this fear from ukrainian defense -- ukrainians are extremely proud people. they have always said nobody is coming in here and taking our land. they have repeatedly said they are confident they have genuine faith, brian that they will win this war. and they are no doubt being helped by the supply of weaponry, the air defense

systems, the javelin missiles, the stinger missiles being fed from western european nations, some of them coming from the united states. so, they are grateful for the help. they always want more, of course, it is making a difference of weapons that we, the united states, and other nations are supplies to ukraine. >> rachel: thank you, jonathan, great stuff. all right. well, meanwhile president zelenskyy as we know went to our congress yesterday pleading for more help. he says that the entire civilization of the world is at stake. >> steve: in fact, he sat down with lester holt and this interview took place on nbc and lester holt asked the president whether he is worried as the biden administration is, that certain actions, like if we give them the migs or do a no-fly zone. if that will start world war iii. mr. zelenskyy says world war iii may already have started.

watch. >> it may have already have started and what is the possibility of this war if ukraine will fall in case ukraine will fall. it's very hard to say and we have seen this 08 years ago when the second world war has started. now we have different technologies, nuclear weapons in this case we have the whole civilization at stake, i believe that russians have already crossed all the red lines when they started shelling civilians, they have killed hundred, over 100 young people, children, our people are unconquerable. you can conquer the city and broke the heart but you won't be able to force anyone to love

someone. that is why the heart will always remain with ukrainians. >> bret: right. they want to go west. that's why they are asking for admission to the european union. zelenskyy talking to different members of parliament in canada, the u.k. parliament. and, of course, ours and in this morning the in germany. he looks at what they're doing and tries to relate to their history and says this is what i need. he brought up yesterday a new alliance called the u-24. respond to conflicts or disasters within 24 hours. whether it's belarus people oppressed by this terrible leader who made an aevil alliance with russia if they rise up, let the west respond. let's do that if you won't let me in nato i will come up with another one. hey, guys, i appreciate you getting in why were you so late? keep the money coming, i also noted you are starting to go to norway to get your oil.

good move. why are you late? level remind you killed 8 million ukrainians in world war ii. we haven't forgotten it. could you kind of make up for it by picking up the pace here being a true leader of europe? we represent will russian values. russia horrible way of governing and living to the west it's going to be bad for all of us including you, soon, who by the way have no army. >> rachel: i'm sure they feel like world war iii. i hope our government and state department and diplomats, our president is doing everything they can right now. you know, there are some peace negotiations going on. yesterday felt more hopeful than today maybe. we don't know where that is going. i think in the interest of the world and specifically the american people we should do everything we can before there is world war iii. this is a nuclear power. and also, you know, we ought to look at what happened and learn

not just from, you know, what's happened with our military and the wars we have lost over the last, you know, few decades, let's also just look at the last couple months. i mean, we saw this lead-up to this war. we saw our president do nothing. really do nothing but announce that it's going to happen. in fact, maybe even make things worse by making the comment about maybe a small incursion would be okay. these are the mistakes that have been made that put us now in this point. civilians are suffering. and let's just hope this doesn't go to world war iii and involve the entire world. this would be terrible. >> brian: i will give you an example. >> steve: we are no longer in a minor incursion. we are in a major incursion. >> brian: look at the nuclear submarines france was selling. sell them. australia goes i'm going with the americans. french immediately took back their diplomats and said we are not talking to you. you let us down. we went back at it, apologized

where the apologies were necessary. we made up within three months ready to go. what we tried to do with vladimir putin is pretend as if he was a rationale actor. four meetings with him. a bunch of meetings with him. you had a bunch of zoom calls with the president of the united states. the u.k. boris johnson, they had no interest in talking because he is not a rationale actor. we have to come up with a collective way to deal with people that don't have any sense of the human condition and don't care about anything else but their power and expansion of that power. in terms of the war itself, the best come ups that you can give to a brutal bully is to lose. and because they are losing to a degree right now to the ukrainians, they are doing it because the superior tactics on on the ukrainian side. they know how to win a war on their own land. they know where the bodies are buried and they know how to work their own street. we had a panel of green berets on before talking about

unconventional warfare. cia working with forces to teach them guerrilla tactics. lynch to what they said is happening. >> what you are going to see is a national level resistance which is going to be extremely difficult for vladimir putin to maintain any kind of opposition to. >> the ukrainians are already conducting this guerrilla warfare. they will don't have the tanks and manpower to stand up to russia. the guys in ukraine are already pounding on the part of the cannon. i think the more we can help them and the more russia, iran and china sees that we beat them back and help they are going to stand down a little bit. >> world is a better place when america leads with courage, strength and honor. we have to get back to that the world knows who we are. we have to remember who we're. >> steve: we have been talking on this program for the last couple weeks the resistance by the ukrainians has been so sharp. maybe that's why russia over the last 48 hours has sounded more

optimistic about these peace talks that are going on. ukrainian official told bloomberg news today this morning ukrainian time that the russians appear to be more optimistic because essentially what they are doing is they want the sanctions eased. so if they sound like they are cooperative, maybe the sanctions will be eased. right now what they are talking about is what will ukraine look like politically and who would they be aligned with in the future? right now they say maybe it would be a neutral country like austria or sweden. >> that particular model then would have security guarantees from a number much western countries. and include one nuclear power. who the nations would, if ukraine was attacked would not stand aside as we are right now with the worry of bringing us full circle to world war iii. this is an alliance that we had suggested yesterday on the program. you know, in nato is not going to do anything, if the united

nations isn't going to do anything, maybe they will come up with a new alliance and we could be seeing justth bud of that right now. >> rachel: one thing in the speech that zelenskyy gave yesterday to congress. he basically called out president biden and said lead, leafed the free world. and what we could know that joe biden is doing is in about 10 days he will head out to europe. doesn't sound like he is leading or his diplomats are doing everything they can and that blinken has not gone to europe or joined the other leaders in going to kyiv and hopefully moving peace forward. >> steve: why? he has a zoom call. >> rachel: he has a private jet that we pay for that we would like for him to use. a refugee center is going up near the border of ukraine and slovakia. >> brian: yup, more than 228,000 refugees seeking safety in slovakia over 3.1 million ukrainians have fled their war torn country. >> steve: that is where alex hogan is now she joins us live

from the ground with details. alex, as people stream to that country are they worried the russians are back in ukraine, i'm worried they are going to follow me to this country, too? >> i think that's the growing threat and fear we are seeing not only from the refugees but volunteers who live here and welcoming them. we have seen 195,000 ukrainians come to slovakia. the process is slightly is changing of how they are welcomed in. now they are bulled to where we are and it's now what people are calling a growing tent city. people are bused here from the border. they get off those buses and they see tent after tent they did receive z. feed, clothing, medical and psychological care, for the burden many parent are carrying with them as they try to support their children and shield them from the realities of war.

kids are oftenning what little they can carry oftentimes that's the family pet from inside ukraine. the sports facility here. police and official workers are helping process the refugees into the country to help them receive access to education and also the labor force as they start new lives here in slow slovakia. sophia and marie, they have been best friends their entire lives. they arrived after fleeing kyiv, escaping the chance of some of the horrors that they have already seen. >> i saw ruining of buildings. i saw children die. i saw a part of bodies and i saw tanks. >> so they saw all those horrific things. seeing dead bodies. seeing children die horrors they will never ever forget.

two women in early 20's, best friends who had just moved out of their parents' homes and starting their careers and starting independent lives and say life seems to have completely stopped and now they are in another country with no idea where they will go. like the many others who arrive here, they see all of these tents. this is a medical tent behind me for any of the wounded. of course today it's a beautiful, warm day. this is the warmest day i have seen since i have been here in this part of the world. thankfully not seeing as many cases of hypothermia. this here is a psychological support tent. therapy for people to process what they have just been through. and realistically the horrors that will come of remembering what they have gone through. over here this is a pet tent with animals that were seeing cute little husky coming up to us right now. some so many people have brought their pits. do you go belongs were packing to are wring bring in what they could imagine to bring in a

suitcase. family child. seeing children and parents talk about at least their animal can be emotional support for them in the most unimaginable situation. >> brian: alex, thanks so much. appreciate it just over in poland where they were just with tapped out of room so people are going to slovakia. >> steve: every person who comes past her has got to have ptsd. just worried it's going to happen again. >> rachel: absolutely. those animals help to lift everyone's spirits. carley? >> carley: yes. i have headlines here starting with a fox news alert. a tragic updated about a washington state deputy shot in the line of duty. 35-year-old deputy and army veteran died shortly after yesterday's shootout. suspect jeremy dayton was also shot and died at the scene. the procession is on hold until after his organs are donated. the 35-year-old leaves behind a wife and 4-year-old son. jussie smollett walking free after serving just six days

behind bars. a judge ordering his release on $150,000 bond, which he will not pay as long as he appears in court when summoned. smollett's release comes after his lawyer appeals his december conviction. arguing he would end up serving his entire sentence before the completion of the process. last week the actor was sentenced to 150 days in jail and $25,000 fine and required to pay the city of chicago just over $120,000. and big news in the big apple, the 2022 saint patrick's day parade is finally back it returns after a two year hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic. the parade was the first major new york city event canceled back in 2019. this year's parade will observe a moment of silence at 12:00 p.m. dedicated to both the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the victims of the pandemic. it's going to be a busy day out on the streets today, guys. >> steve: it kicks off after the

11:00 this morning and it's going to rain. do you know what? green beer tastes the same whether it's raining or not. thank you so much carley. >> rachel: thanks, carley. >> steve: while all eyes are on russian and ukraine. general retired four star general jack keane coming up on that next why is guy fieri in the neighbors' kitchen? it's slider sunday! sliiiiiiiiii-der sunday! these chicken parm sliders on king's hawaiian rolls are fire!

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>> brian: alleged whistleblower china's plans to evade taiwan this fall. while those claims have not been confirmed, taiwanese be prepared no matter what. are we helping like we should. bring in general jack keane to discuss. general, does this whistleblower make you feel as though he has got good intel from what you

know? >> strategically, it doesn't make any sense. just think about it. they just finished the olympics, they are heading towards the 20th national party congress in the fall, which is a big deal in the chinese government process. this is where they fully intend to enshrine president xi for auto third term, likely it's indefinite. and certainly everything is focused on that event. they are not going to start a war around that event at all. now, listen, they are paying close attention to what's happening here. certainly they are noting nato strengthening more unified. they are noting the eu coming together. and pushing some pretty hard sanctions on russia. and they are going to look at that their number one trading partner is the eu. and look at what those sanctions mean for them. and certainly they are looking at the ukrainian resistance taking place. they know full well the

president who is the leader of taiwan is tough just like zelenskyy is she is the toughest leader they have ever had to deal with since 19 7 when the communists took over. so, yes. does this impact? yes, it does. but, this is a fact. president xi is determined as ever to bring taiwan in to his orbit. and i don't believe for a minute that the adverse impacts of what is taking place to russia that they are heading towards strategic failure as a result of this invasion necessary correlates to him and put terms on what his strategic objectives are. he is focused on his strategic objectives for his national interest. and what's happening to the russians in my judgment will not deter him. >> brian: by the way, general, they keep saying that they are ambivalent. they were not taking sides in this conflict and they point out how much trade they do with

ukraine as they called formally not for any violence. they know they could dial things back. they taunted us and said we should be focusing more on our inflation and not ukrainian war. thanks for that help. if you could see, general, just an idea what this looks like. look at the size of china and taiwan. many experts like you have pointed to me and said look at these small islands. that's where this whole thing could start. the way they could -- the way it could start is they could just say hey, why don't we start taking some of the assets that the mats sue island. the and see how the world reacts. start moving some equipment there some armaments there. have a greater presence there. could would he be doing things to get them ready should in this strategy be implemented. >> two things, he has plenty of options on how to deal with taiwan. certainly that is one of the

more favorable option. i call it the start slow and build bic. so you plop some troops down on a taiwan island that's right off the coast of mainland china and then he waits for reaction. does taiwan come after him for that? certainly they do. what is the united states' reaction to something like that? i think the united states reaction to something like that if you put troops down on the taiwan island, the united states is going to put troops into taiwan. that would give us complete justification to do something like that. >> brian: right. we got to do something now. >> we have to do more for taiwan than what we are doing. two things need to happen in that region. up gun taiwan as much as we can and get our allies to cooperate. believe me our allies are going to be more motivated by what's taking place certainly in ukraine. and the second thing is we have said many times on this show, brian, that we're outgunned and outmanned in the indo-pacific region by the chinese military. and any analysis of that is

indisputable. and we have got to upgun ourselves, our own military deterrence in the area has eroded over the years. we are not moving fast enough in my judgment to resolve that issue. >> brian: we have the weapons. we got to go in there and china is not going to like it. they already warned against it do. it anyway. also we point out australia. we point out south korea. we point out japan, india to a degree and say hey, listen, india has a huge problem with china. they don't have a huge problem with russia. we start letting them know we do have some allies in the area and let the american people know we have got get our g.d.p. more money to defense and that's why this region matters. every minute we are in europe focusing on problems in europe, china loves it because we are not focusing on them. general, just something to keep in mind, china is getting a lot of pressure to help out russia. we have got to push back. thanks so much, general. >> yeah. great talking to you, brian have a wonderful weekend. happy saint patty's day. >> brian: holpp you come back to new york today and enjoy it

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but it's not just going to affect the truckers and their small businesses. tell us about the impact on consumers. >> well well, without question, fuel is just the start of it. petroleum product based. consumers are going to start seeing this if they haven't already started seeing this in the grocery stores and running their households all the costs will go up. there is no such thing as free shipping as much as we like to think that that exists. shipping has costs you have to be able to pass that costs on to consumers as products are delivered to the stores. they are going to see that, you know, directly in the inflation that's out of control to begin with. continue to rise as fuel costs rise. >> rachel: i understand there is a pipeline that runs through michigan that may be shut down by the environmental wackoes in the biden administration. tell us about that and how that could impact prices as well. >> there is pain line that runs, you know, called line 5 that

runs through michigan and it is, you know, runs under a strait between canada and the united states. and the state of michigan is actually taking steps to try to shut this pipeline down. it's been running safely for over 60 years. it's a huge thoroughfare for petroleum products that supply the united states. and, you know, if that gets shut down and the state actually exercises that right to try to shut down an international pipeline, you know, we are going to have bigger problems than i think we really truly understand. >> rachel: yeah. things are getting bad. i think the american people have woken up to understand independent energy is national security as well. thank you for writing this letter. i hope they listen to you. i know at love consumers are looking forward to some changes and what's going on right now with energy policy in america. tom, thank you so much for joining us today. >> appreciate it, thank you so much. >> rachel: all right. coming up. russian president vladimir putin issuing a chilling warning to the west as his war rages on.

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express my deepest condo less sense because of death ukrainian killed by russians. in attack on their car. their very close to kyiv. so, this is very sad day for ukrainians because we also lost our people in kyiv in other cities so for my ukraine attack more than 30 dead there. so cannot putin his military machine. but we are ready for any kind of negotiations on different levels. residential and on the level of groups which are still negotiating. so, people are working they are discussing first of all the seas fire and the from the area which

are russians adjust after the meeting minister of foreclosure affairs of ukraine, russian foreign minister lavrov said that we will never attack any european country and never attacked ukraine. so he is a liar. this is a lie. and we don't believe but the negotiations are the only way move forward to stop russian aggression. >> steve: so, markiyan, how close are the two side to anything they have to shop other

penal. talk about the stalls of ukraine, including some other things. but there are still red lines. we are not ready to cross. this is the issue of negotiations so, i'm really very grateful to united states and to your government, to your president for support providing to ukraine. sanctions are working. so, and we have to take into account a couple of effects. first of all sanctions and the losses of the russian army on the territory of ukraine. the losses are enormous. lost more than 14,000 soldiers in ukraine. so they were killed by other army because of aggression. so, negotiations are ongoing. we are still very far but i think that -- they are not

stopped until we are in negotiations i believe in couple of days we will be closer. >> nobody knows more than what's going on than do you right there. markiyan thank you for joining us essentially from the front line of the war. >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> steve: you bet. all right. 14 minutes before the top of the hour. carley has more news from l.a. >> carley: i certainly do update. recall campaign for george gascon well on track to meet july deadline after collecting 125,000 signatures meanwhile. the woke da is giving residents tips on how to discourage thieves from is taking their cars. listen. >> theft device for your vehicle. working together we can keep our community safe. >> gascon is also an author of california's controversial proposition 47 which downgrades

many crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. the people convoy still standing strong despite setbacks against the protest of covid restrictions. the demonstration continuing even after the convoy's request to set up a trucker encampment around the national mall was denied. undeated protester still driving around the nation's capital competing over 2600 miles. those are your headlines, steve, over to you. >> steve: you think about all those miles and gas as much as it is right now. >> those are pricy miles. >> steve: no kidding. thanks, putin. carley, thanks very much. meanwhile fox weather, four people, we are reporting, are dead after 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked japan. oh my goodness. that's terrifying. nearly 100 people are hurt and more than 2 million people are left without power across japan. one of the biggest concerns, a

tsunami warning which was triggered but that has since been lifted thank goodness. check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather forecast on this wear the green day. >> janice: it is saint patrick's day. we have the big parade in new york city. wet weather in the forecast unfortunately. temperatures not too bad. taking a look at what we are ceiling with we have a front that's moving across the central u.s. and the cold air behind it is bringing snow to portions of the rockies from the southwest all the way up towards the great lakes. and this is our next big weather maker that's going to provide the energy that we need to see for some severe weather, unfortunately for parts of the gulf coast states and then into the southeast. but we have winter weather alerts where we could see several inches of snow around the foothills and then in the mountains we could get over a foot. here is our future track as we watch this area of low pressure eject from the rockies, bringing the severe threat to parts of the plain states along the gulf coast from texas to oklahoma back through biloxi and then

tomorrow, more widespread up toward the ohio, tennessee river valleys and into the southeast. we are getting into that severe weather season. we have some very nice temperatures though ahead of it. getting into the 70s here in new york tomorrow. all right. steve, my friend. back to you. >> steve: thank you very much, j.d. >> janice: you got it. >> steve: coming up the cost of just about everything is going up as inflation hits america and new highs. sean duffy breaks down the impact on your family and he is coming up next. ♪ and a hunter. that's why you need versatile, durable kubota equipment. allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good.

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>> rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends." raising eyebrows the president's son borrowed more than a million dollars to pay off his tax liability. >> steve: okay, well, the paid bill could make it harder for prosecutors convict -- to to convict him on federal tax crimes and help him of avoid being indicted if that's possible. >> brian: how is he not in jail that fox news contributor and former district attorney sean duffy joins us now. sean, where did he get off the money to pay -- maybe the bigger story where did he get the money to pay off his taxes? >> first off, good morning everybody and happy saint patrick's day you all look great

in green. >> brian: thank you. >> brian, that was my question. who would lend this crack head over a million dollars to pay off this debt, right? that was the first question. if it was a bank. we should be looking into that bank what's the tie to joe biden number one. talk about paying off the debt to stymie prosecutors who prosecuted him, not to get into evidentiary law the crime was committed when he didn't pay the taxes. enough to that he paid the taxes doesn't mitigate that he committed a crime. i'm not sure if they would allow that in or not that he has paid. prosecutors might go this has gone too far. the real story here is all of the nasty work he has done across the world how much money he has made and able to make $08,000 a month from burisma in ukraine because his dad was the vice president calls into question joe biden's motives. is joe biden looking out for the american people or is joe biden looking out for hunter biden's interests? again, all shade j stuff.

>> rachel: or the big guy we know who that is too. >> the big guy. >> rachel: you did a special yesterday. i thought it was awesome. i know i'm biased. >> steve: a little. >> rachel: sean was supposed to be in studio but we had a baby-sitting issue and we were actually going to have you baby-sit valentina during the sellingment. >> steve: that would be great. >> rachel: then we decided against that and have him. >> i was texting brian can you take valentina. he wouldn't respond to me, brian. i don't know what's up with that. >> brian: i would have loved the child tax credit i would have got money. >> sean: go ahead. >> rachel: you have been calling inflation the war on big families. and it is a war on big families. you had big families, single moms, all kinds of people on your inflation town hall yesterday on fox business. >> woe had a special last night on fox business the 5:00 p.m. hour. you are right, rachel. we have had big families. we had older individuals who

were on fixed incomes, outcome families with one child and a single mom. i mean what's interesting is it's impacting everyone. if you have got a private jet inflation doesn't matter to you. if you want your dollars, inflation is hitting everybody. in regard to big families, it is hitting people who, again, shop for 8, 10 people like we do, drive bigger cars because they can't drive prius it's hitting everybody really hard. dave ramsey said on our show last night watch out for every dlawr spend. every one is special. spend it well. larry kudlow came on and said listen, this is going to last for while. get prepared and put your seat belt on because inflation is going to be here. >> rachel: i'm sad we didn't have time to play a clip. you had a single mom broke down in tears. anyway, we will come back, sean, thanks so much. on fox business tonight at 5:00 p.m. ♪

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>> showing us what leadership looks like, which is never ask others to do what you are unwilling to do. >> president biden responding by announcing additional $800 million in new military aid. >> are you ready to call putin a war criminal. >> i think he is a war criminal. >> we begin with a fox news alert. rescue efforts underway at the mariupol theater bombed by russian forces. >> hundreds taking shelter inside the building including children, but right now no report of any deaths. >> steve: jonathan hunt has the latest from western ukraine. outside that theater, very clearly marked in great big letters in russian, it said, children, and yet the russians hit it. >> jonathan: appears to be

another straight-forward example of the brutality of russian forces. as we enter week four of this war, steve, rachel and brian, we are getting indication and intelligence from various countries they genuinely believe that russian forces on the ground are stalled to some extent. show you this interesting video we just got ahold of, which is taken outside of kyiv and appears to show russian tanks digging into defensive rother than offensive positions. that might simply speak to the nature of what they feel they need to do right now, it may also speak to this idea, getting from british intelligence there is frustration and a real stalling of the russian ground offensive, they are anything but stall whenning it comes to the air offensive. that strike in a theater in the southern city of mariupol, a

theater being used as a bomb shelter, a theater clearly marked outside with the words children, to try to ward off any russian strike. it did not work. we are hearing that an intense rescue effort is underway there now, the bomb shelter beneath the theater apparently survived partly in tact, they are trying to clear the rubble and get out any survivors. russian forces attacking elsewhere from the air, too n. kharkiv, they destroyed what ukrainian officials say was a school, we do not believe that any teachers or children were in that school at that point. we're also hearing some terrifying words from russian president vladamir putin, clearly planning an even greater crackdown on anybody who opposes him in or outside russia.

listen to the president of russia. >> any people and even more so the russian people, will be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and spit them out like a fly that flew into the mouth, spit them out. it is necessary cleansing of society and will strengthen our country. >> jonathan: the cleansing of society? words we have not heard in europe other than the days of joseph stalin and nazi, germany. >> steve: going back to the video you were talking about at the beginning, the new video of the tank appearing to take a defensive position rather than offensive, ukraine today has had a pretty good day against the russian, the ukrainians say shot down 10 russian planes, although part of a missile went into an

apartment building f. they are digging in outside of kyiv, what that says, they go to kyiv, it is hand to hand combat and the ukrainians are going to kill them. the problem outside the city, they get into defensive position, won't they run out of food and gas? that is where they were three weeks ago. >> jonathan: they may well do, steve. clearly in any war, supplying your army, not just with food, but with ammunition and gas to move tanks is a critical part of fighting any offensive. you see them digging in around the outskirts kyiv, it means they are dig nothing for a long fight. it is one thing to stop the advance, it is another to force retreat and the ukrainians have not done that to any major extent as yet, steve. >> brian: jonathan, over the

weekend, they hit your area and there is an air base, do you know of attacking in and around your city or do you know of anticipated effort to circle lviv, where you are? >> jonathan: no, in short, steve. we had large missile attack, 30 missiles launched at the air base just outside of lviv over the weekend. 22 shot down by defense systems, eight missiles hit and 35 were killed in that. that at the moment is the only attack anywhere near lviv and life in this city, honestly, brian, goes on as much as normal. this is not physically hurt by the war, the city of lviv. the mental wounds are building up and thousands of refugees are coming in, the population of the city, particularly last week issue exploded as refugees came

in. many have moved on to what they believe are the safer pasteurs of poland and further into western europe, but this city is trying to carry on as normal, but it braced for what may be to come, brian. >> rachel: go ahead, brian. >> brian: go ahead and finish. >> rachel: i was really struck by that video of putin. it was super creepy talking about traitors and flicking them out of your mouth like the fly. he is talking about cleansing, these are things that bring us back to world war ii, what does this tell you about the state of the war that he's actually saying these things out loud, just as they are pushing back on joe biden, for example, for calling him a war criminal and saying this was unforgivable statement and yet we see this from him? >> jonathan: i think what it

tells you, rachel, president vladamir putin of russia is terrified of allowing any opposition to begin to bubble up. the language is absolutely extraordinary, he is clearly been divorced from reality and decency for sometime now and this is possibly the most obvious example you can get of it. i think back across european history. the most recent time i can think of anybody talking of cleansing society was the so-called ethnic cleansing when the former yugoslavia collapsed in the early '90s and you go back to joseph stalin and nazi, germany. stalin appears to be increasingly a hero and a frightening role model for vladamir putin, guys. >> brian: and he's bad as it gets. thanks, appreciate it. more good news, meldapolv mayor,

looks like he was rescued, he was captured and he is now back and seems okay. if you look at the loss the russians suffered, the u.s. believes they lost 7000 soldiers, if you listen to the ukrainians, they have killed about 13,000, the same number of americans killed in the battle for iwo jima and lost in iraq and afghanistan, that is the type of damage they are getting to a neighbor right by them logistically easy to fight. they have had seven months to build up on the border, all the armorment in the world and russia is being humiliated and the reaction is, level every city and hope to fracture their will. it is not happening. >> steve: particularly if the tanks are moving out into

defense i have gone positions outside the city. that was actually kyiv yesterday, after part of that cruise missile hit that 16-story building right there. if the tanks are repositioning in defensive position, that is where the drones that the president of the united states gave to ukraine yesterday, switch-blade drones could come into play. they are referred to as loitering, cushoot them off bazooka style and fly around for a while and go ahead and essentially do a comcausy mission on those tanks, which would be great. the other thing which is helpful are s-300s. that is referring to the military field hit over the weekend when you were on "fox and friends first" weekend, it is russian-made air defense system. we don't have them, but the united states can ask other

country necessary europe, you have some of those, can you give those to ukraine to help them and that is what is happening behind the scenes. >> brian: it looks like russians have lost a fourth general, which means they are fighting from the front where no one is pushing forward. as they move up, they are being killed. >> rachel: you were talking, steve, about asking european for weapons. president zelenskyy was visit withing our congress yesterday in a joint session of congress asking for more weapons, more help, more support and one thing he did for a fact was to invoke so many of our own historical and emotional moments, mlk's dream and 9/11, talking about closing the sky, that is something that resonates with americans, so many americans died from airplanes, from the two airplanes during 9/11. here is president zelenskyy from

yesterday. >> i have a dream, these words are known to each of you today, i can say, i have a need. i need to protect our sky. i need your decision, your help, which means exactly the same, the same you feel when you hear the words "i have a dream." >> i'm addressing the president biden, you are the leader of the nation, of your great nation. i wish you could be the leader of the world, being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. >> rachel: i couldn't agree more with that, to be leader of the free world means to be the leader of peace and essentially saying this guy is not leading. >> brian: yeah, urging him to do so, step forward. europe could take the lead, that

is fine. if the europe stepped up because you won't, that is an issue. i would love a long-term repurcushion of the war for ukraine to prevail and have freedom to pick their own form of government, love for europe to start taking ownership of their own and put 2% in to defend themselves, great message to the world and china that we're willing to fight for our own help. >> rachel: why just 2%? they are -- i know they are not meeting the 2%, i felt like the europeans when it came to defense were like peep whole go to din sxer go to the bathroom when the bill comes, that is how i feel about them. maybe things are changing notice that this has become more real. >> steve: one time i was out with you and i had to use the bathroom, i know what you mean by those people. direct attack, how dare you. >> rachel: it is time for them

to step up. i still believe joe biden said, go to europe in 10 days, he could do so much more especially on the diplomatic front with negotiations right now possibly there is still hope for that, let's hope for that. >> steve: joe biden will talk to president xi tomorrow, we know china appears to be in cahoots with russia. maybe something will happen then. also yesterday, the u.s. senate declared vladamir putin a war criminal. it was a rare moment of bipartisan unity in the u.s. capitol. jackie ibanez, who is our correspondent at the white house asked the president in the east room about it. keep in mind, there is a whole legal process for declaring somebody a war criminal, goes through the criminal courts, so would the president call him a war criminal? watch this. >> jackie: mr. president, are

you ready to call putin a war criminal? >> no. you asked me whether i would call -- oh, he is a war criminal. >> steve: good news because obviously we've seen things with our eyes and heard from the ukrainians if vladamir putin is bombing a theater with a thousand kids in it and taking out civilians waiting in a bread line, clearly those are acts that a war criminal -- >> brian: what about the press? we watched on video, russians shooting at the press, that is a war crime, blowing up a theater, hospitals, apartment buildings and schools. you are aiming for them, we have video. they are outraged we are making this statement. victor davis hansen is weigh nothing and said i wish the president would take tact more offensive, can we be a mystery to our enemy? >> any time you assure an enemy

what you are not going to do, you are ensuring them they will do it and biden is telling putin what we're not going to do, that is a mistake and we've had a missileistry, sean issue not just in ukraine, after afghanistan and this administration, north korea let off more missile necessary january than it has in entire history and had iran jump in and send missiles close to consulate and putin sent missiles near the polish border. all the players are watching afghanistan and this administration and thinking, there is no consequences and this is rare moment to get strategic advantage over the united states and its allies. >> steve: with united states and allies doing from the get go, okay, joe biden was not going to reveal sanctions until they actually invaded and then he did more things, but what he said was, mr. president, turns out

sanctions didn't work, he goes, give them a month. today marks the start of the fourth week of this invasion. we have not brought russia to their knees, you know, they should have done some stuff before the invasion, they didn't. you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, that is where we are. >> rachel: stop telling them what you are going to do, the most critical blunder prior to the invasion was president biden saying, well, we'll see, if it is minor invasion or incursion, we'll see what we're going to do, that says it all to the russians and why we are in this position. >> brian: the president will be speaking via zoom to the president of china, they will talk about the war, a little bit the economy and the rivalry building. >> rachel: maybe about hunter a little bit. >> brian: how are his

investments going? >> steve: 18 after the top of the hour. carley has news and surveillance video from i think a ring doorbell. >> carley: exactly right. start with this, surveillance video capturing gang of dirt bikers brutally beating up a 64-year-old man and his son in new york city. the attack is believed to be reital yagsz after the man allegedly hit a member of their crew at an intersection. three bikers and one atv rider pulling the man and son out of their car and on to the street. they stole the driver's cell phone, credit cards and cash. jussie smollett walking free after serving just six days behind emarrasss, judge othering release on bond, which he will not pay as long as he ark peers in court when summoned. last week the actor was sentenced to jail and $25,000 fine and required to pay the city of chicago just over $120,000

result nothing this outburst. >> i am not suicidal. i am not suicidal. i am innocent . i could have said i was guilty a long time ago. >> carley: smollett release came after arguing he would serve entire sentence before completion of the process. the nation's largest teachers union drops the ball again. randy weingarten, incorrectly spelling ukraine in a now deleted tweet, the spelling came day after the afp was slammed for promoting photo where the ukrainian flag was upside down, that was deleted. the american federation of labor and congress of industrial organization digitally altered their flags to appear right side up. and soon, youville to pay up to share your netflix password. streaming giant is testing ways

to verify passwords are kept within the household paying for each account. adding extra member feature to upcharge accounts sharing passwords. i'm surprised it has taken this long. they are leaving so much on the table because everybody shares their password. >> steve: people said, you don't have netflix, here is the password. >> rachel: do it all the time. >> brian: you do? >> rachel: my daughter got in a fight with her boyfriend, my little one said, can we still use his password? dependss how bad the fight was or he would change it. >> brian: good luck with that, white house threatening to veto a bill for the mask mandate after it passed in senate. rand paul wrote the legislation he says is long overdue. >> rachel: we'll talk to dolly parton pulling herself out of the running for the hall of fame

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>> the administration or congress should pursue a stand sdlt alone clean energy package. >> we heard president zelenskyy, we do not want to see any country that is held hostage to vladamir putin and this is a moment for congress to be able to act. there can be a compromise, there can be movement on this, this is the moment to have this happen, an urgent moment. >> brian: clean energy, president biden energy secretary using crisis in ukraine to push far the far left energy agenda and it is just not ready. attacks are raging in ukraine.

kentucky senator rand paul is with us. react, if you can, senator, secretary of energy looks at the energy crisis and the -- all the energy coming out of russia has to be substituted and thinks, let's go green, that is not even practical. >> nonsensical and tone deaf when the left talks about more clean energy, it is code for less coal, less nuclear and she should at least realize this got europe in this predipredicament germany eliminated coal and nuclear over the course of couple years and almost entirely dependent on russian oil because of the green movement. the green movement put europe under the thumb of putin and russia. every american ought to know from a gut feeling, we should be

producing all types of energy. i'm not against windmill or solar power, you have to have other forms of energy, as well. >> brian: the government knows that and asking venezuela and saudi arabia to pump more and iran to put oil in the world market. they know it, they are just not doing it. do you believe the oil companies are gouging? that is accusation from senator elizabeth warren. >> this is mistaken notion, like corporate greed is causing inflation. my question back to them, did they all of a sudden become greedy, were they not always self-interested? if it is your interest, it is greed, if it is mine, it is self-interest and not greed. the marketplace is competitive, price of something in free market is supply and demand crossing, nothing to do with personal morality or feelings about making a profit.

>> brian: the passion you have mask, covid, response, calling out anthony fauci and trying to get his position, been terrible throughout this process and lauded by most walks of life, not ours. you said time to rescind the travel mask mandate, how did it do in the senate and how does the white house say i am vetoing it? >> blow-out victory, eight democrats voted with us, first time democrats have broken ranks on issues. many were in purple states, will have difficult re-election, they are hearing from parents, not just republican parents, it is democratic parents and independent parents and here is coup degras. they saw representatives not wearing masks and next day told

their eight year old not at risk has to wear a mask, they see the hypocrisy and don't see science, they just see hypocrisy, it is time to end the mandate and charade. it is coming, there is a month and more pressure we put on more defection from democrats, better chance biden will lift this in a month. >> brian: airlines are suing, jet blue and american, southwest are suing. too much pressure on peep and he will big secret, i would whisper issue but joe biden does it and it freaks people out, it is the cleanest air you can breathe is on airplanes because they rectify their system to adjust to challenges. hopefully people understand this is not a partisan issue, we have to be old enough to make our own decisions. senator, thank you for doing that. bullet-proof vests meant for fighters are stolen in new york

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>> steve: america's crime crisis

affecting donations for ukraine as bullet-proof vests were stolen from a nonprofit here in new york city. >> brian: suffolk county donated to the group and joining the effort to get the vests back. >> rachel: the sheriff joins us now, how did this happen? good morning. >> good morning and thank you for having me on. we're still working with the new york city police department to identify how this traj -- tragedy happened and hoping to recover the vests back. >> steve: absolutely. suffolk county donated 450 vests, you don't know if your 450 were part of the 400 who stolen. who stole them? who needs bullet proof vests other than the possibility of a drug cartel, gang, they have a

bunch of tactical gear. >> you know, it is very concerning for all of us in law enforcement that the tactical body armor is now out in the general public and who knows what they are going to be used for, we are hoping to have expedited, have this issue expedited and get the vests recovered. >> steve: do you guys have any surveillance camera, any leads? >> the new york city police department is taking the lead on this investigation, so they, whatever means they are using to obtain any evidence on who the possible perpetrators are is going to be their call and how they are moving forward with this investigation. >> rachel: it is sad, obviously this protection could have been useful to people in ukraine, the situation has gotten very dangerous, there is no security and this could have been used

for forces and civilians who are approaching checkpoints and all kinds of dangerous situations. >> you are correct. these vests were intended to help civilians providing security in the ukraine and the medical teams that would need body armor. >> steve: it was at a none profit organizing things to help the people over there and somebody -- it just flies in the face of humanity, took that stuff away and cops are looking for them. sheriff, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me on. >> rachel: let us know if you catch them, we want to have the update. up next, a look at how long these high gas prices could last and how a new covid shutdown in china could impact demand. stay with us. when you're driving a lincoln, stress seems to evaporate into thin air.

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>> steve: high gas prices are hitting and hurting american wallets, national gas average hit $4.28 this morning. >> rachel: average dropping slightly over the last week and some are wondering how long it could last as new covid shutdown in china is threatening to slow demand. >> brian: jeff block is live from philadelphia, jeff. >> i am at the oil and gas storage facility, oil, you report good news on gas prices, oil is spiking today over $100, the reason for that? yesterday a report on how much oil and gas is in storage, in terms of crude, we expected drou down of 1.3 million and got gain of 4.3 million barrels, that

helped gas prices. news from international energy agency that we're in for the worst fuel and gas crunch that we've seen in decades. that is because they say we will not be able to make up for the russian crude that will not be on the market going forward. ie a says it will lead to inflation, decrease in purchasing power and reduced growth. jerome powell said pretty much the same thing, it is going to get worse. >> surge in prices of crude oil and other commodities that resulted from russia's invasion of ukraine will put upward pressure on near-term inflation here at home. >> reaction from democrats in the house, the chairman of the house energy and commerce committee sent this letter to big oil, saying, i am deeply concerned that the oil industry is not taking all action within

power to lower domestic gas prices, the industry appears to be taking advantage for its own benefit, echo tweet from president biden and according to our oil guru, phil flynn, misunderstanding of how the oil industry works, here is what phil told us. >> stop making u.s. oil and gas the enemy, they are not. they are on our side. they want to make a profit, they want to provide a good and safe product for their people at home. >> it is worth noting, guys, most gas stations in this country, 150,000 of them, most are mom and pop, only 5% are owned by big oil. american folks. you have to understand how this business works, sometimes folks in washington don't. >> brian: they pretend they do. >> rachel: i think they don't

know how it works, you make a good point, jeff issue these are good guys issue the oil and gas people, they are our people, this is our country, we're blessed with this resource and boggles the mind we're not using it. >> rachel: we need to produce more, i'm sorry. >> steve: anybody watching or listening on the radio, and is driving by jeff, honk as you go by because yesterday was his birthday. >> rachel: happy birthday. >> steve, you are not supposed to bring that up, i wish you would forget. >> steve: happy birthday, our friend. >> thank you, folks, appreciate it. >> brian: glad we hired the trucks in the background, drove the point home. >> rachel: he gets to stand in the rain all day. happy birthday, jeff. turn to headlines, authorities have identified sick college golfers killed alongside their

coach during a horrific head-on car crash in texas. the team played for the university of the southwest. two other victims were inside the pickup truck involved in the wreck. the driver of the vehicle has been identified as 38-year-old heinrich simmons and the passenger is unidentified 13-year-old boy. massive fire at walmart distribution center. the building, black smoke visible from miles around and picked up by a weather satellite as hundreds of firefighters tackled the blaze. all employees were evacuated safely issue the cause of the fire is under investigation. well, call it the luck of the irish, notre dame overcomes rutgers to advance to march madness. >> shot no good and atkinson and it is good.

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ukraine, you can help, head to redcross.org/foxforward to give to the cause. steve. >> steve: dolly parton opened american country music award with special dedication this year as russian troops bring terror on the country of ukraine. she joins us with more on that powerful moment, along with james patterson, both have co-authored "run, rose, run," good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. >> steve: dolly, why did you dedicate that show to the people of ukraine. i know you said, i don't like to be political, i rather paz a kidney stone than do this. >> that is not political, that is humanitarian issue there. i knew we were going to have a big time that night while all the poor people in ukraine were suffering and misplaced and going through all kinds of hell. i felt it only right to say

something about that. >> steve: sure, james patterson, as guy who thinks up stories all the time, this is the worst story ever that is going on. >> it is a bad one, dolly and my relationship is based on two things, we respect each other and we listen, that is key to relationships. like to see russia and ukraine get at table and stop the war. >> steve: dolly has been in the news because rock-and-roll hall of fame wanted to have you in the running for an honor there, you took yourself out. why? >> well, i didn't feel right about that, my perception and i think the perception of most of america, i feel like that is more for the people in rock music. i've been educated saying it is more than that, i still didn't feel right about it, it would be like putting ac/dc in the

country music hall of fame. >> i will go, if they ask me, i have been at woodstock, i will go. >> steve: biggest selling author of all time with novels and dolly sold 100 million records and the queen of country, you two have teamed up, you have written this book, "run, rose, run" tell us about it, it is about somebody who is on the rise but on the run. >> tell them, dolly. >> tell them, dolly, he's always putting it off on me. i'm very excited to be able to work with someone as great as james, he didn't need me at all. he wanted me to write a book with him. he wanted to write something about nashville and i knew a lot about nashville. we came up with a really good story about a young girl that was running, like you say, from something, but to something, a future. there is a lot of mystery and

good stuff in the book you have to read. >> dolly and i were both million to one shots against us making it, she came from the hills of tennessee and i came from a th woman in this booth, annie lee keys, has personality and talent and she has a chance to make it. that is why people love the book, it is about dreams and will she make it or not. >> steve: absolutely. it is the biggest book in the world right now issue not only a book, it is also an album. >> we were working on the story and i thought, well, this is about nashville, i write songs, i understands this, i started writing songs feeling that was greater way for me to contribute to the story, because he knows how to write a book for sure. we swap back and forth, i would write songs and send lyrics and he splat erred the lyrics

throughout the book. we are proud we have a sound track for a book. >> absolutely. >> nobody -- we wrote a little mystery and made some music history, i don't think anybody has done it before, we're not aware of it. >> steve: listen to that, you are rhyming. >> i learn today from dolly. >> i rubbed off on him. >> steve: you been working together for a while now and it is rubbing off on you. james, you went to college at vanderbilt around nashville. i think this indicates you are a frustrated country singer and this is your way to get actually write a country song. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. i was down there, i wrote a few songs, i don't know if they were any good. grand ole opry was in town and you couldn't come into a bar without somebody singing. it was fun and made a great impression on me.

>> steve: james, let's hear your favorite song xhchlt on, sing some of it. >> you ready, doll sne is it easy? no, it ain't. >> can i fix it? no, i can't, but i sure ain't gonna take it sitting down. that is one song from the book. he just avoiding you all together. >> you told me i can't sing worth a whatever. >> he can't sing, i he cannot sing. >> steve: you are traveling and going to austin and you have dolly verse, what is that? >> well, that is some high-tech stuff we'll be telling you more about later, but we'll be streaming that show, that is for the south by southwest festival, first time i've worked that, too, we're excited about that. james will be there. >> we're doing a duet, dolly. >> we might, i doll a whole show after we do our

question-and-answers, i'm going to do a convert after that. >> steve: join the live stream, be part of the nft drop and welcome to dolly verse.com. congratulations on the biggest book in the world. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> steve: great book. >> rachel: great interview, that was awesome. >> steve: they are terrific. >> rachel: she's a legend. >> steve: so is he. caught me by surprise. there is the book, he sold 400 million books, she sold 100 million albums, they teamed up and that is what is available everywhere. >> rachel: yeah, incredible and i don't blame her for not wanting another award. she's the queen. >> of rock-and-roll. >> rachel: of everything. >> brian: not really rock-and-roll. join me on radio, amongst the

gets are petraeus and general jack keane. >> rachel: great guests. >> steve: also join rachel's husband sean, tonight 5:00. >> rachel: 5 p.m. on fox business channel, it will be great, he's got a great lineup today. >> steve: have a great st. patrick's day, see you back on the couch, have a great day, here is dana and bill. the war in ukraine in its fourth week. russia continues to slaughter civilians, the latest target theater packed with hundreds of women and children in a bomb shelter. as we say good morning, dana ha got some time off this week. fred welcome back to our old friend. >> great to be with you this morning. ims and a smith and this is "america's newsroom". that attack happened in marable this is a satellite image that showed the ukrainians had marke that theater on bot